Spain nabs 3 suspected of global cyberattacks

[iwishiwas]

Source: AP





Spain nabs 3 suspected of global cyberattacks
The Associated Press


Posted: Jun 10, 2011 5:54 AM ET
Last Updated: Jun 10, 2011 6:53 AM ET

Spanish police have arrested three suspected computer hackers who allegedly belonged to a loose-knit international activist group that has attacked corporate and government websites around the world.

A National Police statement issued Friday identified the three detainees as leaders of the Spanish section of a group that calls itself Anonymous.

A computer server in one of their homes was used to co-ordinate and carry out the cyber attacks on targets including two major Spanish banks, the Italian energy company Enel, and the governments of Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Iran, Chile, Colombia and New Zealand, the statement said.

The statement said the only other countries to act against Anonymous so far are the United States and Britain......................

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/06/10/cyberattacks-spain.html

[sudopod]

1. leaders

oh lol

[wingzeroday]

2. Pocos Pero Locos

Godspeed.

[blank space]

3. Um - yeeeeeahhhhhhhhhh riiiiiiiiiiiiiiighttt

So, the most advanced computer hackers i the known world were using a server, from their home, to co-ordinate global attacks.

You have got to be kidding me - what else are you going to tell us ? It was the unions that caused the Financial Meltdown ?

Jesus, they have just given up entirely haven't they....

[Downwinder]

4. I still see little difference between a '60s lunch counter sit-in

and a denial of service attack.

[The Doctor.]

9. What they did was disruptive and potentially harmful to regular people.

Which is why they were not being 'Anonymous'.

[formercia]

5. Headline should read

Script Kiddies charged with Felonious Stupidity.

[alp227]

6. Spain Detains 3 in PlayStation Cyberattacks

Source: The New York Times

PARIS — The Spanish police said Friday that they had apprehended three men suspected of computer hacking in connection with recent cyberattacks on Sony’s PlayStation Network as well as corporate and government Web sites around the world.

The National Police identified the three as the local leadership of the shadowy international network of computer hackers known as Anonymous, which has claimed responsibility for a wide variety of attacks.

Anonymous is made up of people from various countries organized into cells that share common goals, the police said, with activists operating anonymously but in a coordinated fashion.

One of the three “hacktivists,” a 31-year-old Spaniard, was detained in the southern city of Almería sometime after May 18, the police said. He had a computer server in his apartment in the northern port city of Gijón, from which the group attacked the Web sites of the Sony PlayStation online gaming store.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/technology/11hack.html

[glinda]

7. well that is depressing

[The Doctor.]

8. These are not members of Anonymous, much less 'leaders'.

How fucking stupid is global law enforcement?

One must be totally ignorant of what Anonymous is to think these disruptive punks are 'Anonymous'.

[Ghost Dog]

10. Well, "Spain releases three held over Sony hacking attacks", Kyodo now says,

quoting Associated Press.

Sunday, June 12, 2011
Spain releases three held over Sony hacking attacks
Kyodo / Japan Times

NEW YORK — Spanish police said Friday they arrested three people suspected of launching denial of service attacks against the websites of Sony Corp. and other companies, as well as those of several governments.

The three were later released without bail, according to the Associated Press, after police denied the suspects may be linked to the recent data breach of personal information of more than 100 million accounts at Sony, mainly of users of its PlayStation Network services. It was also reported that no evidence had been found indicating the suspects stole classified information.

/... http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110612a3.html

I'm not finding an Associated Press report in English on this subject later than the original reporting only the arrest. El País, though, explains this much:

Los detenidos han sido puestos en libertad con cargos tras pasar a disposición judicial. La policía les acusa de un delito de interrupción de un sistema informático ajeno (un nuevo tipo introducido en el artículo 264 a través de la última reforma del código penal y castigado con pena de seis meses a tres años de prisión) y de asociación ilícita (sancionada con hasta tres años de cárcel para los miembros activos de la organización).

Those arrested have been charges and released after initial judicial review. The police accuse them of the crime of interruption of service of an IT system that does not belong to them (a new crime recently introduced under article 264 during latest updates of the criminal code, and punishable by from 6 months to three years prison time), and of illicit association (which carries up to three years prison time for the active members of the organisation).

[christx30]

11. Global law enforcement isn't stupid

They are desperate to put a cap on this thing. They want to demoralize the Anonymous people blah blah blah whatever. So anyone they are able to stumble into is suddenly a 'leader' or 'ringleader'.